Have you seen the Matrix?
Kidding. Um…hang on. I like…mini-reviewed this in a chat with my friend. Rather than think more about it..oh wait fuck, I just remembered I wrot a age about it yesterday.
Let me fire up Word.
K so I was drunk and wrote the following, but if you want to skip all that here’s my recommendation: see it if you want, it’s not so bad….
Keanu reeves is a little typical, but not overly so. The character calls for it. But that being the case they should have found someone else for the role whom we would not have said “is he gonna be another wooden omnipotent doer-of-all like we saw in the matrix. Not for nothing but that was a big role for him so it kinda sticks to the mental ribs.
Otherwise the idea was sound but I think it could have been more cerebral. Instead a cheesy melodrama cemetery scene, how about something more incrememntal and/or intricate.
No one oever died on alpha centauri? They don’t deal with death? Of course they do. He needs to repair himself, they can die. So therefore show something unique to humans. Hard? Too bad, youre the artist. DO IT.
They’ve been watching us this long, they’ve seen us get down and drink over death and then come back and do the same thing. All creatures sell out in the face of death. Put death at the feet of the human race and surely we wil cower. Duh. Give us something more fearsome. Annihilation? Meh…ok. Kinda. But we presented ourselves with annihilation in 1945 and decided the best course of action would be MAD. Theres a great idea. Neutrality by mutually assured destruction. Fucking brilliant. My dad votes republican.
Show something else. Like Bach. That was a nice touch. Think Troy. “Your beauty is that you can die.” Therefore we have nothing of value except what we produce. Our lives are nothing without that which we create, even if its only another life. That’s our gift. Our talent. Maybe not unique in the universe, but as we’ve not met any martians, there it is. Talk about that. Not death. Death happens everywhere. Where there is life there is death. To define us by that is to negate our individuality.
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So there it was. That’s what happens when I review a movie on three gins.
